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When I heard that it occurred to me that we are taking for granted with the Bills that there will be team success and peace among ownership and management and highest paid players............just because it makes sense. I think it's much easier to look good as an owner in the NFL because the league really promotes parity and they are true partners in that they help each other everywhere except on the field. It's set up to allow a kooky screwball like Mark Davis to take over his dad's Raiders and fail into success............so it's a perfect place for any ownership group that doesn't know what it doesn't know. The NHL is a bit more "every team for itself" so it's concerning that the Sabres are the worst organization in hockey every year.

I heard Paul Hamilton on WGR the other day literally say that the Pegula's gave up full control to McDermott and Beane and he knew that they now REGRET giving all that power away........so don't expect them to do the same with the Sabres.

He's not a starting outside WR (X or Z) in the NFL. Brown may have hit the wall but he was an excellent starting outside receiver in 2019. McKenzie is just a gadget player with some ability as a slot WR. McKenzie would be a lot more valuable if he didn't have such a tragic history of fumbling as a return man. And while he took that one to the house against Miami in the finale.....I am sure that play lost a bit of it's luster to the staff when they saw him bobble the catch. Ideally you have a gadget guy who can also safely and effectively return kicks so you don't have to have 2 roster spots tied up like the Bills do with McKenzie and Roberts.

You can hate it all you want..........but the data supports the fact that offense is the better, more sustainable area to invest in. Simple as that. If you want to look at it on a year-to-year basis, yes you will have aberrations like a Tampa team that was 7-5 thru 12 games and "shellacked" multiple times in the process caught fire and stayed healthy and won the SB over a severely depleted offensive line on a team that was 17-1. If I have a young QB I will take my chances with being that 17-1 offense-dominant team and end up 18-1 more often than not. Referencing the NFL of 30 years ago and not acknowledging that it's a totally different game both offensively and defensively now is ridiculous.

It was Pat Williams that you are thinking about. They formed "the package". That defense was instantly stout but almost entirely because of Ted Washington. Pat Williams without a stud run defender was not good against the run. They added Adams and had a brief run where they were mostly very good but they just didn't have the power or the heart of those Bills DL's of the late 90's. When push came to shove.......like in the win or go home finale against Pittsburgh....... they got shoved.

Star is a DTaint. Definitely not big or physical enough to anchor as a nose and not athletic enough to be a good 1 tech.

Every once in a while you will have an outlier. You couldn't build a team like Tampa on purpose...........a lot has to go right to go from being the league's biggest underachieving team and not getting torn down after that season.......and then being the biggest underachieving team in the league thru 12 games of the NEXT season........to then winning the SB in dominating fashion 2 months later.

I thought he did a solid job at Alabama too..........but I also thought he might get fired by Saban had they lost that game. He was chewing Daboll a new one on the sidelines early in that game, it was quite amusing.

Stills ASKED for his release and it was granted. He was unhappy with his usage and unhappy with things going on in the organization(specifically a firing of a popular PR executive) and becoming a pest about it on social media. But they held onto him until he had the leg injury and it was clear that the injury was probably going to keep him out most of the rest of the season. So there was no reason to hold onto him any longer if he wanted out.......and they obliged. Everyone familiar with the Texans will tell you it was a crowded WR room. Deep enough that Keke Coutee.........a player with a higher career average yards per game than Cole Beasley.......was the guy that was previously being de-activated in favor of Kenny Stills. You didn't do your homework on this one Hap. Just own it.

I like where you are going with this.........IMO the best and longer term return on investment for this team is going to come from investing on the offensive side of the ball. That requires excellent pro and college scouting work on the defensive side of the ball.........but that's why they have this all-star staff. If Whaley and company can find a Zach Brown and Lorax for pennies in the span of a week in the bargain portion of free agency and have them turn into the league's leading tackler and a DPOY candidate then we should hope that this staff can find some bargains to provide better bang for the buck than some of the previous UFA shopping trips.

I've seen Leonard Williams associated with long term $20M per year quotes.

Clock is also ticking though. He'd be 47 in his first NFL game as HC in 2022.......the trend is more toward hiring younger first time HC's. As I've said.....as far as his HC aspirations go....showing growth as a game planner and play caller would be more useful than just a repeat of this past season. He'll get his chances to show off.......the road game at KC could be big individual point for his candidacy after two clunkers against the Chiefs in 2020.

There isn't really a lot of space between Daboll being the NFL assistant coach of the year and 6 years of WOEFUL offenses. There is just one season. There was a lot of hyperbole thrown around about him during the season.......how brilliant he was and how it was inevitable that they were going to lose him to a HC position...........a lot of people forgetting that he has an overwhelmingly poor track record as an NFL OC.........hence my point about being "overrated"...........and then during the postseason his offense did not look good and it culminated in a woeful performance in the AFC Championship game. Like I've said........I think he's a good enough NFL OC........you might even say that that type of OC is the kind you want because he shouldn't warrant a ton of HC interest due to a very poor early track record.........and therefore you can keep your system in place and draft and develop for it and hopefully that OC continues to grow as a game planner and play caller.

Stills might be washed but you are wrong on two important counts: 1) The Texans didn't just choose to release him.........he ASKED for his release. 2) The Texans had a deep and high quality veteran WR corps........the X and Z that Stills would preferably play combined for 2,000 yards receiving.

I think a lot of people here do think that his recent award is proof that he is an elite OC..........those who point to it as proof that he isn't overrated think that he just won the MVP award for coordinators. The reality is that those type of awards tend to be given out to they who most exceed expectations. And Daboll is a guy whose high water mark in 6 years of NFL OC work was what? 24th? So yeah he made a jump from never having an offense that wasn't bad to one that was near the top of the league.

Watson had a better statistical year than Allen even last year..............both more productive and more efficient on a worse team. I am a huge Allen fan......but he went from one of the least efficient passers in the NFL in 2019 to one of the best just last year. You likely don't realize this but Allen's amazing improvement in accuracy still finished him below Watson in that regard in 2020. 4 seasons of top QB play vs 1 = more proven. And fwiw he's less than a year older than Allen. He was much better than Russell Wilson last season. He was better than Brady. Rodgers is certainly acceptable as perhaps better than Watson right now.......but that's also debatable. Not debatable that he is one of the top 5 QB's in the NFL. Very hard to find a trade value match for a 25 year old QB who is THAT good.

Athletes who get physically better in their 30's usually do so because they get better informed on substances that will help them improve performance. I suspect that is part of the deal with Fitz but the thing he really lacked in Buffalo was power in his core and subsequently his throwing arm and that kind of power is something that can improve with age from mid-30's to mid-40's. That's why it has always been fairly common to see heavyweights box effectively for so long. Fitz arm got miraculously stronger about the time he was in Houston. Maybe JJ gave him a good connect down there or maybe Fitz just put on some good weight in the core. When that happened he ceased to have to throw his whole body into every pass that traveled over 20 yards in the air and that improved his downfield accuracy immensely. Agree that he should be able to play for several more years.

Current slot WR not real excited about this idea

So enough Bills fans are irrationally critical of Daboll that you can label "Bills fans" in general as anti-Daboll? I think you are exaggerating a lot there. Daboll has a mostly unsuccessful history as an NFL OC....... it's illogical to suggest otherwise.........because it's just a fact..........he has plenty to prove yet. That doesn't mean he can't but there are plenty of coaches who had a brief run where they looked like geniuses and then it turned out it was just a good idea or two that was caught on a rising tide that doomed them to success. Briefly. What you want to see from a great coordinator is the kind of thing we saw from Wade Phillips for decades...........the ability to adapt and get the most out of the personnel on hand consistently from week to week and from year to year. Not just a brief success.....even if it were GREAT like that of a Sam Wyche or Mike Martz.

I think it was Bojangles.

Just glad you finally found out who the donor was.

The only re-work that makes sense will require lowering Brown's scheduled pay or player freedom by offering a team friendly extension. I am a John Brown fan but I agree with the take from the spotrac founder in that thread............pay cuts don't endear the player to the team. Better off cutting them and letting them test the market. Beane cut Incognito's pay.........the guard market heats up a couple weeks later in UFA.........Incognito loses his mind and Bills ended up with a hole at guard. Beane cuts Lotulelei's pay.........guarantees his money in return with a rather obvious plan to cut bait after 2020 season........so Star opts out and the plan blows up in Beane's face.

1 - Again with your daddy issues 😂 2 - He does strike me as a likely simp, in fairness his current partner is a massive upgrade in every superficial regard on the one that he had that cheated on him with Golden Taint. She has that for leverage.

Technically he was still in the bathroom pretending to have the sh*ts after texting McDermott to let him know that he'd have to trade up ahead of Carolina to get Zay Jones. Yep. Reputable sources.